Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League Co-Champion Columbia in their 1961 finale and, after 93 long years, to nail down their first undefeated season. They had a solid line, the East's best center in hard-hitting, hard-nosed Team Captain Alex Kroll, and a backfield that combined speed, drive and deft ball handling. Coaches thought enough of the team to rate it among...
When the formidable Augustus John displayed an accumulation of his paintings, as he did every decade or so in London, the occasion was apt to follow a rigid ritual. The critics would arrive, admire the deft draftsmanship, and report in awe that though John did not change, he never seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle...
Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...imposing figure of a man. Standing only 5 ft. 6 in., the slightly built Madison appeared to be even shorter, and his face wore a look of perpetual perplexity. The shy son of a well-to-do Virginia planter, Madison early began to seek consolation in books, developed a deft, concise writing style by the time he graduated from Princeton in 1771 and set out on a career of molding men's minds rather than swaying their passions...
...that carried Commander Alan Shepard on his suborbital flight. Inside the building glittered the American Rocket Society's "Space Flight Report to the Nation"-an astonishing exhibition of the phony and the competent, the trivial and the magnificent. Some of the objects on exhibit were miracles of deft design and precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what...